Data Harvesting and Exploitation

Every interaction with centralized AI services is often stored, analyzed, and sometimes even resold. While this enables those services to enhance their models, it does so at the cost of user autonomy and privacy. Data harvesting enables third parties to:

• Build advertising profiles.

• Train proprietary models using personal information.

• Monetize insights from user behavior without permission or compensation.

Shadow AI eliminates this trade-off entirely by ensuring no data is harvested and no personal information is processed outside the user’s encrypted environment.